Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them
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独立游戏发行商Panic宣布，将向此前承担特朗普政府非法关税费用的Playdate掌机客户全额退款。此前，美国最高法院于今年2月裁定相关关税违法，并要求政府退还企业暂缴的进口税。Panic在帮助页面更新中表示，已开始收到过去一年缴纳的关税退款，并将客户支付的全部关税予以返还。此前，因Playdate利润率较低，Panic无法自行消化19%的进口关税，故在订单
Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year.
The news comes months after the Supreme Court said in a February ruling that those tariffs were illegal, which also demanded that the administration refund the companies that had to temporarily pay the import taxes. In an update posted on the Playdate help site this week, Panic noted that it has finally "begun to receive refunds of the tariffs we paid in the last year" and had consequently "refunded all tariffs charged to customers."
In the initial version of that tariff note, Panic explained that it couldn't afford to simply "absorb" the 19 percent tariffs it was being charged to import Playdate hardware made overseas because "our margins on Playdate are low." As such, while the tax was in effect, it was passed along to customers as an explicit subtotal line item at the bottom of all Playdate orders. That's in contrast to companies like Nintendo, which vaguely cited "market conditions" and tariff "uncertainty" in raising the asking price of legacy hardware and some Switch 2 accessories last year.
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